The Universal family physician and surgeon containing a familiar and accurate description of the symptoms of every disorder incident to mankind, together with their gradual progress, and method of cure ... Also, a system of family surgery ... With an universal herbal and a complete dispensatory / The whole compiled from Smythson, Tissot, Buchan, Cornwell, etc.
- Date:
- 1798
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Universal family physician and surgeon containing a familiar and accurate description of the symptoms of every disorder incident to mankind, together with their gradual progress, and method of cure ... Also, a system of family surgery ... With an universal herbal and a complete dispensatory / The whole compiled from Smythson, Tissot, Buchan, Cornwell, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.
720/780 page 708
![charges, and other internal hcemorrhages. It may be given In infufion, or the expre^^ed^juice ; in the for- mer way it has been efteemed ufeful in fevers. SOW THlSTLE is found under hedges and by foot-paths, and is very troublefome in our gardens. It rifes two or three feet high ; the (talk is round, hollow, angular, channelled, upright, and of a green colour ; the leaves are long, ftiff, rather narrow, but - pretty deeply indented about the edges ^ the points made by indenting terminating in prickles ; when any part of the plant is broken it emits a milky bitter juice ; the flowers, which are large and yellow, and refemble thofe of dandelion,'but are lefs, and of a lighter colour, grow feveral together on the tops of the branches, and hand in fcaly cups, which contain dov/ny thin flat feeds ; the root is long, large, and wdite. The leaves are ufed medicinally, but are beft whenfrefli gathered; a ftrong infufion of them.operatet by urine, and removes obfi:ru6tions ; they are fome- times eaten in fallads, but the infufion is more effica- cious. There are feveral other kinds of fow thifllel found in common with this, but as they all poflTefi the fame virtues, and this has them moft in per* feaion, it is not neceffary to mention the others, which differ only in fize, and in being without prick*^ les. SPEEDWELL grov/s commonly in dry paftures, and on heaths’; the fialks feldom exceed eight iacbes high, cannot fupport themfelves upright, but trail along the ground, fliocting out fibres at their joints^, which root again, and continue the growth of tht plant; the leaves -are fliort, oval, of a light green^ fomewhat hairy, and indented round the edges; tht flowers, which are final], and confift each of one blue or purple leaf, grow in flender fpikes, which fife from the bofom of the leaves, and thefe flowers are fucceeded by feed veffels, fliaped like thofe of fliep- herds purfe, filled with very fmall leaves ; the root is a bunch of fibres. The whole herb is ufed, and though befl frefli, does not lofe all its virtues by be-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28775697_0720.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
